June video topic poll
Hi! There are some repeats here from past polls. Choose as many as you like. If there is something you specifically want to talk about leave a comment below.
Comments (20)
Your videos are fantastic. I would love to listen to you explain the "axis of evil" - the apparent correlation between the plane of the Solar System and aspects of the cosmic microwave background. I haven't read or heard a clear explanation so it is hard to grasp, but I reckon you would help a lot with your science communication skills!
just watched your pokemon video and...its pretty much the star trek replicator isnt it? if i had seen it before i wouldnt have suggested star trek stuff, also no one wants to see it. So for next week. Who won Kendrik or Drake. I dont know what to ask.
I agree with the awful genre. But country music singers can hit a note. And some of the best guitarists came out of this "stuff". Not to mention the techs that laid down the tracks. I ran sound for a church for a time. I can't stand that stuff. But there was talent even so.
There are two kind of topics I always avoid. One is when something has the potential of selling out, people are selling out everything for two likes in the social media. My fears are always unfounded, but it's better safe than sorry. The other one is capitalism. In certain systems there are emergent properties like gravity, entropy, capitalism and when someone puts up a fight it's cool, like skateboarding or living healthy & aging slowly or unionizing adjuncts. Much better than being complicit and driving instead of walking or believing god keeps things constant or exploiting people. But for the monthly videos, I just want to hang around and not thinking about the overarching drama of life, about the unwinnable battle against overwhelming forces.
Nope. Still can't find the merchandise button. Dam I'm old. It's fine. 🙄
Not a big country fan. But if it has a hook imma fish. I'm thinking that the 90s was the big crossover decade? I seem to remember that there was an issue in the press about a rock and roll bleed over? I'm old. And a blues guy. So some "country music" makes me feel. Could you sort me out on that?
It’s funny, because every time I listen to country music, my only thought is, “You people complain about rap?” It’s a stolen genre full of terrible “musicians.”
Jimmie Dale Gilmore 🎶🎵
I want the whole capitalism rant. Also the guitar
90s country music sounds like a horror show to this overgrunged gen xer
Years ago I was on an astronomy bulletin board and Stephen Hawking wrote "Original spin." He and I and others thought it funny.
I don’t think I can stop picking 90s country music until you talk about Shania
also the funny way you have to write to get published and then get rid of all that academic writing style and write it in a way everyone understands for the layman
Copyright law has become distorted by Disney protecting right to Mickey Mouse. Copyright was meant to encourage productivity, but in journal articles, the creative people don't get the copyright, the publisher does. One solution, which we may get if we all hold our breaths until our faces turn blue, would be to create an exception for scientific articles: three-year copyright. Or force Elsevier to disgorge its profits to the content creators.
I'm back, nerds, to talk about the ceremonial IRB run around that must be exposed to the world, the graduate student grant letter mills, the 6 year combined ba-ma programs created to have more students eligible to apply for grants for longer time (they count ba/ma as graduate the whole 6 years). Accreditation cycles where colleges take the faculty and make them investigate their college for 2 years and write a group dissertation on it, present it to an agency, then spend money to hope you get let into their club after wasting 3 years. And their denial of my cat, Rigatoni as a emotional support lab animal. peace love wutang
The one thing I'd love more than a Fuck Elsevier rant is a Fuck Microsoft rant (and I'm the rabble rouser always calling for the journal capitalism rant!). They have been the absolute bane of my existence for 30 years.
Both the ceremonial aspects and the journal rant would be great. I have my own journal rant that my labmates have to listen to occasionally (frequently) about how much I hate that null results can't get published
that time when science fell to achey brakey heart.
Something that gets me, is people just casually say that the sun will swell in size and swallow the earth's orbit... so like, the sun's gonna get vv big right?
How can I NOT pick 90s country music now!? 😂